Roxy

A lightweight Redis Layer 7 proxy.

• epoll based, can manage thousands of connections
• single threaded (for now)
• supports Redis protocol
• can intercept and modify requests and responses

Prerequisites

• Linux (tested on Ubuntu 24.04)
• C toolchain:
  • make
  • a recent C compiler (e.g., gcc or clang with support for C23 features)

Build

From the project root:

make all

Unit testing

Incomplete, at the moment only the dbus module is tested.

make test

Usage

• Run redis server
• Run roxy
• connect redis client to roxy

Example:

Open a terminal and run:

redis-server

Open another terminal and run:

./roxy

Open another terminal and run:

redis-cli -p 6380